Catalog
10 Baht 'Commemorative Overprint Issue'
| Issuer | Bank of Thailand |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Currency | Baht (1897-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in military dress uniform with decorations, positioned to the right, set against a pink and brown guilloche underprint. At the lower left, a mythical Yaksha guardian figure in classical Thai artistic style serves as a secondary vignette. The Thai numeral '๑๐' appears at lower right, with Thai script legends and the Bank of Thailand title across the upper portion of the note, alongside two manuscript facsimile signatures of bank officials. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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This note is a standard circulating 10 Baht from the fourth series, distinguished solely by a commemorative overprint applied to mark the 1969 celebrations of the 72nd birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's mother, Princess Srinagarindra — a numerologically significant age in Thai tradition, representing the completion of twelve full sixty-year cycles. The overprint was applied to notes already prepared for general issue rather than to a separately printed commemorative run.
Thomas De La Rue had supplied Thai banknotes since the 1950s, and the base printing relationship was well established by this point. Pick 81 is frequently encountered without the overprint, making correct attribution a straightforward authentication concern for this type.